How to Use stator in a Sentence

stator

noun
  • Gearless hub motors directly link the motor's stator to the bike axle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2021
  • To make the rotor spin, a rotating magnetic field is set up in the stator, as noted above.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • Designing a motor that perfectly aligns the stator field with the rotor field is no easy task.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • Several such coils form the rotor, which is the part of the motor that turns, and which sits inside the stator, which does not.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Therefore, nearly all electric machines today use an iron core in the stator and in the rotor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • The parts were seals on compressor stator vanes that help direct airflow inside the engine.
    — Mary Schlangenstein, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The large components in the motor are shaped like slim discs, and the stator is positioned between the two rotors.
    — Chad Kirchner, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025
  • These pulses set up a magnetic field that interacts with that of the motor’s stator, which makes the rotor spin.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • When voltages are applied to piezoelectric plates on the stator, the coil spring moves back and forward as a linear slider.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2020
  • When voltages are applied to piezoelectric plates on the stator, the coil spring moves back and forward as a linear slider.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2020
  • One set is stationary (called the stator) and the other is mounted on a rotating shaft (called the rotor).
    — National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Both forces are nearly at zero when the rotor’s magnetic field and the stator’s are perfectly aligned.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • So the rotating stator field attracts both the permanent magnets and also the iron of the rotor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • When the plates of the stator and rotor reach their closest approach, thin wires will make contact, allowing charges to transfer between them.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
  • The stator directs the flow of transmission fluid inside the torque converter.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • Driving the stator coils with alternating current causes the rotor to spin.
    — Carl Bugeja, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Aug. 2018
  • This rotating stator field attracts the permanent magnets of the rotor so that the rotor starts moving.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • In many motors today, stators and rotors are made from conventional crystalline iron alloys.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Changes in the resistance between the stator and the coil spring end are converted to a voltage and used for position detection.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Each stator consists of two central proteins that dangle from the cell wall and five proteins of a different kind that form a pentagonal ring around the pair.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In a synchronous machine, the stator field and the rotor rotate in tandem, without the lag found in asynchronous machines.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • This rotating field is produced by windings in the stator that are connected to an alternating-current source.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • These windings are repelled by permanent magnets or electromagnets in the stator.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • Geely and Syensqo's clever stator cooling system took the Module Lightweighting prize.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Adjusting the current fed to each set can create similar magnetic poles facing each other in the stator and rotor.
    — National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Coils of wire in the stationary outer portion of the motor, called the stator, produce these electromagnetic fields.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
  • When wire windings in the stator are electrified, the magnetic attraction causes the rotor to rotate.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Here the dynamic, rotating magnetic field is created within the stator rather than the rotor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • In other designs, the magnets can be embedded in the stator, or the magnets can be arranged to work with a DC magnetic field.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • And, as in the PMSM, the motion of the rotor is caused by the rotating magnetic field of the stator.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017

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